Shoes for JoJo

This morning Joseph (aka JoJo) showed up at our house with three of his siblings.  They all wanted to go with Joseph to buy shoes.  Kathy hurt her foot yesterday...playing with the youth group from church!  So at first I didn't think that she was going.  Woody and I were trying to figure out how I was going to transport four children with none old enough to sit in the front seat...and get car seats and boosters for them in the car also.  But Kathy showed up and said that she was able to drive since she had a boot for her foot from her last foot injury. (She went to the doctor later this afternoon and he says that it isn't broken...but she has to wear the boot for at least a week.) So six of us headed off to help Joseph pick out some shoes.  Now the top picture shows more children than we took.  The two young girls on the right are the shoe store owner's granddaughters.  I taught these girls' mother in Montessori school many moons ago.  They were helping out at the shoe store this morning.  The middle picture shows Joseph looking in the mirror checking out the first pair of shoes that he tried on.  In the end he chose the ones that he has on in the bottom photo.  He is much happier with more room for his little toes!

Woody got up and walked early this morning.  He and Graham ran an errand to attempt to buy a new blade for the lawnmower.  In the end they had to make two trips because the lawnmower shop needed to see the lawnmower to be sure to get the right blade.  They thought that just taking the blade would work...but no.  It started sprinkling just as we drove back into the driveway after our shoe shopping trip.  By the time that Woody and Graham got the lawnmower loaded it was raining a bit harder and not long after they headed off it started pouring...not for very long but poured enough to get water into the trunk of the car  since they couldn't close the trunk down with the lawn mower in it.  The did get a new blade and Graham got the blade changed and has mowed some today.  The grass in their backyard is pretty tall and thick since Woody wasn't able to mow it this last time that they were gone due to extreme heat and then due to rain.

I have done a little of this and a little of that around the house today...started a few cleaning jobs...will continue to work on them some more tomorrow.  Today the children and I discovered an interesting spider web in one of our living room windows...it looked like a hammock connecting one side of the curtains to the other.  One of the reasons that I decided that it was time to do some cleaning!  But I had gotten rid of a spider web on this same window last week...guess I only got the web and not the spider.  I guess a day or two will tell if I relocated the spider this time!

Woody made his crispy quinoa burgers again today.  And, he also made what I call his meat loaf burgers...these burgers have what you would put in meatloaf...not my favorites!  I prefer "just meat!"  He made me some of those too.  He put them together and I broiled them for our supper...along with some to eat on other days.
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Tomorrow is the day that Esther is having a sleepover for her 10th birthday party.  The boys are planning to have their own sleepover...over here!  Party! Party! Party!